THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT A PERSON IN UNIFORM

FRAZER CHRONICLE

(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

It’s true, I know for a fact that women seem to be attracted to a man in uniform, I can remember that…and it was neat. Of course I’m talking about a military uniform, not a cop, or a janitor, or garbage collector, but a sailor, or soldier. I don’t know how it is for women in uniform; I can only speak for me…”women in uniform never did a single thing for me.”

 

And now we come to a new troop deployment to Iraq, a war that ended on December 31 2011, hooray, and hooray. Personally I never figured that Iraq was over; there was simply way to many loose ends. And now the president is going to order more troops back into the country and retired and serving US mucky mucks are heralding the president’s requests.

 

The US waged war in Iraq for parts of at least nine years with varying degrees of success as well as failures…and through it all not a single sole learned a damned thing. Am I the only one speaking truth and reason…I sure hope not.

 

The United States does not belong in Iraq, the US was responsible for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, the United States is responsible for leaving the country in turmoil, and the US is responsible well over 100,000 civilian casualties…minimum. And now we’re going right back in there with 500 military troops to train Iraqi military and police…”like that’s going to work like it did during the Bush administration”.

 

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that Iraqi Security Forces “showed no will to fight,” at least in Ramadi from falling to ISIL. If that is true, which I’m sure it is, what in the world is the Obama Administration sending more American troops to train Iraqi’s. If they won’t fight…any matter the reason, no amount of training or weapons is going to change that kind of attitude.

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN

While Americans suffer here in the greatest country ever devised in the history of man, “it’s what many conservative fools think and say,” our president is strongly thinking about adding military bases in Iraq! Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the United States military dismantle a whole bunch of military facilities at a cost of millions to taxpayers?

 

Call me silly, but I got to ask the question, “who exactly is running the loony bin,” I want to get this issue crystal clear in my feeble 71 year old mind, “we build um, we use um, and then we tear them down…and then we re-erect them?” Sounds like somebody with a whole lot of time on his/her hands is running the country; so much for financial conciseness, and the best interest of us taxpayers.

 

I guess that price tag for close to $2 trillion dollars for the war on terror hasn’t made a dent in those hard headed authority figures that are running this country. It’s why, for me, it’s getting harder and harder to vote for a president to operate our country. I’m not endorsing isolationism…yet, but I guess I’ve got to ask the question of “how much longer are we going to allow our elected officials to run rampant with our tax dollars.”

 

We have a national debt that is out of control, we have people who are uninsured, “even with the Affordable Care Act,” and we have people living out of card-board boxes under bridges, and we have people living from hand to mouth…no money, and a majority of US citizens continue to turn a blind eye towards our massive military force and buildup.

 

STEPPING ON TOES

I’m going to lose some readers, and possibly even some friends, but this needs to be said…the United States is an aggressive military state who fancies itself as the world’s policeman. This feeling surfaced during WWI and was further developed on the run-up to World War II, and has been refined during the 1950’s through the 1990’s.

 

September 11, 2001 was a wake-up call for this country’s leaders and how woeful the country’s intelligence was. The wars that have raged since that date have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. The blood-bath has marked this period in human history, given the fact that many countries and citizens have supposed to have moved on from the butchery and carnage that man does to man, has been extraordinary.

 

With the amount of secret situations that are going on right here in the United States, with the huge amounts of money that is being misappropriated, and the people who are foolhardily signing up to protect America’s freedom and way of life to me is ridiculous. Talk about your misguided individuals…they’ve swallowed the bait “hook, line, and sinker.”

 

That bait; that these people are protecting US citizens from terrorists, or as they like to phrase it…”from bad people” is complete crap. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror, the United States is not lily white, there are ulterior motives as to why the US has meddled so much in the Middle East…one word sums it up…petroleum.

 

The people that have the most to gain from any military action in the area are those petroleum related industries and the military industrial complex. I understand that using the phrase “military industrial complex” all sorts of visions of the late 1950’s and 1960’s, but the phrase is still spot on in explaining who is pushing.

 

THERE IS A REASON UNIFORMS SHOULDN’T RUN A COUNTRY

The United States needs a military presence…in the United States, like the National Guard, however unlike the National Guard; the country needs full time military forces to deal with all sorts of domestic issues, forest fires, floods, weather events, and actually helping the police departments around the country.

 

There is a reason why the United States has been run by a civilian individual, because a military type person mostly knows just one way, confrontation. With little exception, military individuals are used to getting their way which can be very bad for a country.

 

I am not say in any way, shape, or form that the United States is the best country in the world, or that it has the best pattern for building a governing body. I am saying however that the country does give a citizen a chance to grab at the ring of individualism. How important that chance is, is pretty much beyond me.

HAVE A NICE DAY!